Today's Bike Ride

I used to knock about one on the (road) hills around my hometown when I was in my late teens, but I've not been on one since...... (bike that is....)

Thanks for the offer Han

Sneaked out on the crosser for 90 minutes of mud, blood, boggy moors, stony lanes and swampy tracks. Got bollocked off the wife when I came back due to mud on kitchen floor (that was after I'd hosed myself down outside) :eek:

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Originally Posted by Ady In Accy

Sneaked out on the crosser for 90 minutes of mud, blood, boggy moors, stony lanes and swampy tracks. Got bollocked off the wife when I came back due to mud on kitchen floor (that was after I'd hosed myself down outside) :eek:

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Ahhh, that is the bliss I am going to undergo in a few minutes, once I have closed up and gone home and get myself onto the bike :)

Not that I have anyone to tell me off to make my house even more muddy :D

The delights of being single!:cool:

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Originally Posted by Ady In Accy

Sneaked out on the crosser for 90 minutes of mud, blood, boggy moors, stony lanes and swampy tracks. Got bollocked off the wife when I came back due to mud on kitchen floor (that was after I'd hosed myself down outside) :eek:

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over hambledon hill? used to train there when worked in Accy

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Originally Posted by monkeynut

over hambledon hill? used to train there when worked in Accy

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Yeah. Coppice, Kings Highway then left toward the bottom of Hambledon then a push + carry to trig, down, parrallel track toward golf balls, down the moor and back toward moleside and down various tracks to Arden Hall.

Done about 60 (dry) miles including a lap of the ironman UK cycle course (112 miles - approx 36 miles x 3).

Some very very fit people out there today. Great support for all the riders and good crowds heading back to Adlington and Rivington.

(and if anyone wants a collections of drinks bottles there are dozens around the course!!)

Will go into Bolton later and watch the end of the marathon.

Mostly chasing young baggy pants mtbers around Gisburn on my old crosser again fer crack!!:D
(im getting to old for this!!) but its great fun
They say "you dident quite catch me" naaa not quite mi bikes older than you and you have brakes that work and suspension:confused:

I have got a compact and I am not afraid to use it! (To get up the Devil's Staircase) :D

130 odd kms and about 3000 metres of ascent...

Fan bloody tastic ride, I tell you! Wales is so incredibly beautiful... more about the route and a link to pictures to follow, as this was a TdG style ride. I was even wearing my King of the Mountains jersey for good measure :)

Tell me the route...I wanna go!:D

16 miles along the Manifold valley and back, with my eldest (5) on a tag-along. I'm ashamed to say I was pretty tired by the end. :eek: